AISLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does aisle mean? 

• AISLE (noun)
  The noun AISLE has 3 senses:

1. a long narrow passage (as in a cave or woods)

2. passageway between seating areas as in an auditorium or passenger vehicle or between areas of shelves of goods as in stores

3. part of a church divided laterally from the nave proper by rows of pillars or columns

  Familiarity information: AISLE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AISLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A long narrow passage (as in a cave or woods)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("aisle" is a kind of...):

passage (a way through or along which someone or something may pass)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Passageway between seating areas as in an auditorium or passenger vehicle or between areas of shelves of goods as in stores

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

aisle; gangway

Hypernyms ("aisle" is a kind of...):

passageway (a passage between rooms or between buildings)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Part of a church divided laterally from the nave proper by rows of pillars or columns

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("aisle" is a kind of...):

area (a part of a structure having some specific characteristic or function)

 Context examples 

Here are no aisles, no arches, no inscriptions, no banners.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Straight down the aisle he came, and up the platform.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I lounged up the side aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I look at a boy in the aisle, and he makes faces at me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Mercury won’t retrograde until February 16, so you would be free and clear to walk down the aisle, and it would be an ideal time to wed.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

No wonder that letters addressed to people here had never received an answer: as well despatch epistles to a vault in a church aisle.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

From where we lay we could look down a brown aisle, arched with green, formed by the trunks and branches.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Often I have watched them come up the aisle upon a Sunday, first the square, thick-set man, and then the little, worn, anxious-eyed woman, and last this glorious lad with his clear-cut face, his black curls, and his step so springy and light that it seemed as if he were bound to earth by some lesser tie than the heavy-footed villagers round him.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The path which the young clerk had now to follow lay through a magnificent forest of the very heaviest timber, where the giant bowls of oak and of beech formed long aisles in every direction, shooting up their huge branches to build the majestic arches of Nature's own cathedral.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Professor charged up and down the green aisles like a stout Teutonic knight, with a pole for a lance, leading on the boys, who made a hook and ladder company of themselves, and performed wonders in the way of ground and lofty tumbling.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)